Modulation of brain hyperexcitability: potential new therapeutic approaches in Alzheimer's disease

S Toniolo, A Sen, M Husain - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
People with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have significantly higher rates of subclinical and overt
epileptiform activity. In animal models, oligomeric Aβ amyloid is able to induce neuronal …

Neuronal hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease: what are the drivers behind this aberrant phenotype?

H Targa Dias Anastacio, N Matosin, L Ooi - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder leading to loss of
cognitive abilities and ultimately, death. With no cure available, limited treatments mostly …

The storm before the quiet: neuronal hyperactivity and Aβ in the presymptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease

A Stargardt, DF Swaab, K Bossers - Neurobiology of aging, 2015 - Elsevier
Neuronal activity directly promotes the production and secretion of amyloid β (Aβ).
Interestingly, neuronal hyperactivity can be observed in presymptomatic stages of both …

Mechanisms of hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease hiPSC-derived neurons and cerebral organoids vs isogenic controls

S Ghatak, N Dolatabadi, D Trudler, XT Zhang, Y Wu… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Human Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains and transgenic AD mouse models manifest
hyperexcitability. This aberrant electrical activity is caused by synaptic dysfunction that …

Early-onset network hyperexcitability in presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease transgenic mice is suppressed by passive immunization with anti-human APP/Aβ …

SF Kazim, SC Chuang, W Zhao, RKS Wong… - Frontiers in aging …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cortical and hippocampal network hyperexcitability appears to be an early event in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis, and may contribute to memory impairment. It …

Neuronal hyperactivity–A key defect in Alzheimer's disease?

MA Busche, A Konnerth - Bioessays, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, the impairment of cognitive functions in Alzheimeŕs disease (AD) is thought to
result from a reduction in neuronal and synaptic activities, and ultimately cell death. Here …

Functional neurophysiological biomarkers of early-stage Alzheimer's disease: A perspective of network hyperexcitability in disease progression

S Tok, A Ahnaou… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2022 - content.iospress.com
Network hyperexcitability (NH) has recently been suggested as a potential
neurophysiological indicator of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as new, more accurate biomarkers …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting neural hyperactivity as a treatment to stem progression of late-onset Alzheimer's disease

RP Haberman, A Branch, M Gallagher - Neurotherapeutics, 2017 - Elsevier
Sporadic late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most common form of dementia in the
elderly, causes progressive and severe loss of cognitive abilities. With greater numbers of …

Hyperactivity induced by soluble amyloid-β oligomers in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease

A Hector, J Brouillette - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Soluble amyloid-beta oligomers (Aβo) start to accumulate in the human brain one to two
decades before any clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are implicated in …

Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy: a perspective on the opportunities for overlapping therapeutic innovation

L Lehmann, A Lo, KM Knox, M Barker-Haliski - Neurochemical research, 2021 - Springer
Early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with variants in amyloid precursor
protein (APP) and presenilin (PSEN) 1 and 2. It is increasingly recognized that patients with …